We found 70 examples of how to use possession in an English sentence.
Sentences 51 to 70 of 70.
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| 51. | Possession of firearms is a misdemeanor. | |
| 52. | And Joseph placed his father and his brethren, and gave them a possession in the land of Egypt, in the best of the land, in the land of Rameses, as Pharaoh had commanded. And Joseph nourished his father, and his brethren, and all his father's household, with bread, according to their families. | |
| 53. | And when Joseph was come in to him, he said: God almighty appeared to me at Luza, which is in the land of Canaan, and he blessed me, and said: I will cause thee to increase and multiply, and I will make of thee a multitude of people: and I will give this land to thee, and to thy seed after thee for an everlasting possession. | |
| 54. | And he charged them, saying: I am now going to be gathered to my people: bury me with my fathers in the double cave, which is in the field of Ephron the Hethite, over against Mambre, in the land of Canaan, which Abraham bought together with the field, of Ephron the Hethite, for a possession to bury in. | |
| 55. | So the sons of Jacob did as he had commanded them. And carrying him into the land of Canaan, they buried him in the double cave, which Abraham had bought together with the field for a possession of a burying place, of Ehpron, the Hethite, over against Mambre. | |
| 56. | I would have thee to understand this, and would tell thee before all that sit here, and before the ancients of my people. If thou wilt take possession of it by the right of kindred: buy it, and possess it: but if it please thee not, tell me so, that I may know what I have to do. For there is no near kinsman besides thee, who art first, and me, who am second. But he answered: I will buy the field. | |
| 57. | If therefore you will hear my voice, and keep my covenant, you shall be my peculiar possession above all people: for all the earth is mine. | |
| 58. | He was in possession of stolen goods. | |
| 59. | He landed in jail for drug possession. | |
| 60. | He was illegally detained under a warrant of arrest and thrown in prison for the simple reason of being in possession of the Kabyle flag. | |
| 61. | In Medieval Europe, the possession of a dovecote was a symbol of status and power. | |
| 62. | The US took formal possession of the islands in 1867. | |
| 63. | France ceded possession to Great Britain in 1763, which colonized the island in 1805. | |
| 64. | Livestock is a Tuareg family's most valuable possession. | |
| 65. | Tom was pulled over and charged with speeding and possession of drug paraphernalia. | |
| 66. | Mary was admittedly in possession of only two hands, but even that was two more than her dejectedly pocketless jeans could ever hope to accommodate. | |
| 67. | He has served time for drug possession. | |
| 68. | Health is the greatest possession. | |
| 69. | One of the functions of the genitive case in Russian is to denote possession. | |
| 70. | This thought took complete possession of me, and suddenly I felt the ground give way beneath my feet. |